I Will Not Die

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Step right up ladies and gents!

[Blah, blah]: I was wrapping up two different posts; one for tonight, one for tomorrow when suddenly, I learned that a dear friend of mine had shoved (hard) her blog while it was standing on smooth, wet tile causing it to slam onto the floor, dead in a growing pool of its own blood.

Sad, truly.

‘Tis life, I suppose.

I don’t know what made me feel worse, reading about the events, or reading her remarkable cheerfulness about the whole thing.

It reminds me of the time when I was nineteen a few days after Christmas. I was in a very rural area with thick snow, miles from any nearby houses. I saw a small object in the road ahead of me as my car crept along the icy vein between unending snow-heaped farm fields.

It was a very young puppy. Weeks old, at the most.

I stopped my car and got out. I approached it and saw the blood pool. Its back legs were kicking, the front legs and head were not moving. What I saw next was quite grisly.

It was breathing, trying to get up. One eye was hanging out and blood was seeping out of the socket (no joke). When it saw me, it whimpered and got excited, trying to wag its tail. Obviously it was not going to make it.

It still had a red Christmas bow around its neck.

Two choices: walk away or… yeah.

So I broke its neck. I then dug a grave for it on the side of the road and buried it, climbed back into the car, drove off and cried.

And I remember how cheerful I tried sounding the rest of the day.

Truth was, there was nothing to be all that cheerful about.

So she killed her blog, all in an effort to improve her blog. Damn. We can fix this up in a jiffy.

Go read this.

You can help me fix this by:

Subscribing to her new feed by clicking here

Throwing her a link: http://throughtheillusion.com/ (for you bloggers), and

Adding her to your Technorati favorites by clicking here

Tell some friends. With a few backlinks, a few subscribers, and a bunch of “hellos”, we can revive this sucker.

In the coming days, I’ll go through my whole site and redirect the links I made to Hayden’s old blog url to her new one.

Added bonus:

You link to her blog, I link to your blog. If you do, let me know in the comments.

Gracias friends.

Hang in there Hayden

Here is who has helped so far:

• TheAndySan

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